Waco Evening Tribune (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 24, Saturday, October 29, 1927

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9
20 YEARS
VERDICT
Jury Says Guilty in Case of M. C. Woodson, Who
Robbed Eddy National Bank and Escaped With
$1501, Later Being Captured in Bell County
With Automobile
Twenty years in the state penitentiary was the verdict
returned at 10 o’clock this morning by the jury in the case
of M. C. Woodson, charged with robbing the First National
bank of Eddy of $1501 in a daylight hold-up Oct. 10.
The verdict was read by District Clerk Bob McClain.
Woodson sat erect, his face a bit flushed. For a second
it looked as if his steel-like composure would remain as it
did throughout the trial, but as the verdict seemed to sink
in he lost his nerve, and his
head drooped. He remained
staring blankly at the floor
until he was removed from
the courtroom.
N Arrested Oct. 12
CLASH OVER
MEXIA ROAD
Discord Between State
and Federal Highway
Men; Losh Dissatisfied
With Work
AUSTIN, Oct. 29.—(INS)—Dis-cord
broke out between federal and
state highway engineers here to-day
when A. R. Losh of Fort
Worth, district federal engineer, in
conference with R. A. Thompson,
state highway engineer, expressed
dissatisfaction with several state
-highway projects now being
planned. Discussion centered
around Highway No. 14, in Lime-stone
county, a 15-mile stretch of
road running north and south of
Mexia.
Present plans call for rebuilding
the highway and making it con-crete
pavement. Losh insisted, over
the protects of Thompson, that the
present road would have to be wid-ened
before the federal govern-ment
would be willing to contrib-ute
aid towards the project.
HIS LEG BROKEN,
HE ROPES HORSE
^Wounded by Bullet, Youth Mounts
Horse and Hide to Ranch
for Aid
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 29.—(UP)
"With a bullet wound in his right
leg that shattered the bone below
the knee, Richard Ross, 20, Moore,
Texas, hobbled 300 yards on his
left leg to the barnyard, roped a
horse and rode horseback more
than a mile to secure aid.
The youth rode to a nearby
ranch and was given first aid be-fore
being brought to a local hos-pital.
MOODY SAYS NO
SPECIAL SESSION
Woodson was arrested in Tern-pie,
Oct. 12, two days after the
robbery, by Sheriff John Bigham
of Bell county. On the same day
he was positively identified by
Cashier Fred Stewart of the Eddy
bank as the man who at the point
of a pistol made him place $1501
counter change in a black bag, and
then locked him in the vault.
Sheriff John Bigham took $525
from Woodson’s person and recov-ered
$600 from his room at the
time of his arrest.
From that time Woodson has
maintained his innocence.
Argument in the case began Fri-day
night at 7 o’clock, after a trial
lasting two days. County Attorney
Dick Holt requested the jury to
“make an example" of Woodson
for future bank robbers and crimi-nals
in McLennan county. '
Wanted in Oklahoma
It was learned Friday morning
by Dick Holt that Woodson was
wanted in Pottawatomie county,
Oklahoma, for the robbery of the
Fir-it National bank of McCloud,
Okla., and escaping with $2000.
How Woodson came in possession
of the green Studebaker introduced
as evidence in the Eddy robbery
was explained by the county attor-ney
who talked last night over long
distance with County Attorney
Randall Pitman of Pottowatomie.
Acting as a prospective buyer
Woodson took the car on a trial
spin, robbed the McCloud bank,
paid part down on the car with
the stolen money, and left that day
for Texas, he said.
Miss M. Hopper, fiancee of the
defendant, and her mother, Mrs.
Della M. Hopper, who were* wit-nesses
for the defense, learned^last
night for the firit time that-Wood-son
was wanted in Oklahoma.
Motion for a new trial had not
been filed by C. S. Farmer, attor-ney
for the defendant, today.
BANKER IS GUILTY
Governor Refutes Dallas Rumor
That Legislature Is to Con-vene
at Early Date
AUSTIN, Oct. 29.—(INS)—Gov-ewnor
Dan Moody stated today he
had no plans for calling g. special
session of the Fortieth legislature,
either now or next January.
“I can see no reason at this
time to justify a special session,”
the governor said. He added that a
story originating in Dallas last Fri-day,
declaring the governor might
call a special session next Jan-uary,
might be misleading as he
had no such intention at this time.
FATHER-IN-LAW OF LOLITA
ARMOUIt DIES IN’ CRASH
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.— (INS.K-John
J. Mitchell Sr., prominent
Chicago banker and father-in-law
of Lolita Armour, daughter of the
late J. Ogden Armour, died today
of injuries sustained at Liberty-ville,
in an automobile accident
this morning that also cost the
life of his wife, Mrs. Mary Louise
Jewett Mitchell.
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Former Official at Borger Admits
Violating Federal Law at
Amarillo
AMARILLO, Oct. 29.— (INS) —
J. Y. Simmons, former Borger
bank official, pleaded guilty in
federal court here today to two
charges , of violating the national
banking laws. He was sentenced
to 18 months in Leavenworth pen-itentiary
by Federal. Judge, James
C. Wilson.
STUDENTS DIE IN
MOTORBUSCRASH
Three Are Killed and 8 Injured as
Fast Train Strikes Bus Near
Calumet City, 111.
CALUMET CITY, 111., Oqt. 29.—
(INS)—Three persons were killed
and eight injured seriously here
today when the motorbus in which
they were riding from Davenport,
Iowa, to Chicago, was struck by a
fast Pennsylvania railroad train
here.
The dead: Ralph Rhodes, 21,
St. Louis, University of "Missouri
student.
Miss Marjorie Moss, 19, of Paw-nee,
Okla., student, and an uniden-tified
man.
WOMAN ROBS
PRINCE CAROL
a. U. S. PAT. OFF. (ClFlfrA
By Dr. Isldor Block, Optometrist and
Meteorologist, 421 Austin Avenue
Forecast for tonight: Partly cloudy,
probably scattered showers and cooler.
I Temperatures, today : Maximum, S4
At 1 p. m.; minimum, 64 at 6 a. m.;
barometer, 29:92 ; humidity. 95 per
cent; total rain for the month, 6.76
inches.
EAST TEXAS — Partly cloudy;
probably showers north portion.
Cooler tomorrow in northwest sec-tion.
AVEST TEXAS—Tonight and Sun-day
partly cloudy; somewhat cooler
in north portion Sunday.
OKLAHOMA. — Cloudy tonight, lo-cal
rains; colder Sunday, cloudy and
colder in eastern portion.
She Was Very Beautiful and One
of the Servants at Villa Fell
for Her
PARIS, Oct. 29.— (INS) —The
robbery of the Neuiily villa of for-mer
Crown Prince Carol, of Ru-mania,
in which a beautiful young
woman figured and in which let-ters,
believed to be of political im-portance,
were stolen.
The robbery took place a week
ago, but news of it just leaked out.
According to the story told to
the police by ah old Rumanian
servant, who, caring for the villa
in Carol’s absence, his attention
was attracted by a very beautiful
voung woman who walked back
and forth past the villa several
times. .
The servant, being as romantic
as most Rumanians, went forth
into the street and the two were
soon acquainted. They had din-ner
together. The servant drank
some wine. The next thing, he
knew, he said, he woke up in his
bed with a raging headache.
When the servant arose he found
Carol’s quarters ransacked and his
fair companion missing. Also a
number of letters were missing.
Later the unimportant letters were
returned, but others were kept.
GREAT GUNS!
HARBIN, Manchuria, Ocf*»29.
—(UP)—A citizen of Har-bin,
desiring to viist Rus-sia,
obtained passports forvhim-self
and wife and bought train
tickets when ho was informed
he must have a visa for his 2-
year-old daughter.
While he was^wariting for it,
his wife gave birth to triplets
and he called off the trip.
TWO DROWN AS
SCHOONER AND
SHIP COLLIDE
Two Fishermen Lose
Their Lives in Fog Off
Cape Cod; 9 Missing
and 3 Are Saved
BOSTON, Oct. 29.— (INS) —
Eleven Gloucester fishermen lost
tlieir lives when the liner Presi-dente
Wilson, with 600 passengers
aboard, crashed with the fishing
schooner Avalon off Highland
Light, Cape Cod, in the dense fog
of early morning today. This was
the belief of the eastern coast-guard
district headquarters here.
ABOARD S. S. PRESIDENTE
WILSON (Via Radio to Boston),
Oct. 20.—(INS)—Two Gloucester
fishermen lost their lives, nine
were reported missing, and three
others were saved as the result of
a collision in a denge fog off Cape
Cod early today between the
steamship Presidente Wilson and
the Gloucester fishing schooner
Avalon.
Those picked up by the lifeboats
from this steamship were Levin
Fleet, Franck Hemeon and Nicho-las
Walsh.
Two bodies were found floating
near the scene of the wreck.
There were 14 men aboard the
mackerel fisherman.
The Presidente Wilson stood by
looking for survivors or bodies but
nine were not found. Possibly they
escaped in dories.
Four coastguard cutters have
come up and begun the work of
looking for floating bodies or sur-vivors.
The Presidents Wilson, which
was not damaged, cammed the
fishermen amidships at 4:15 a. m.
Darkness and fog hampered the
work of rescue.
The captain of the Presidente
Wilson estimated that five minutes
after the crash of timbers the
Avalon foundered.
BOSTON, Oct. 29.—(INS)—The
schooner Avalon, in a dense fog,
was rammed and sunk 25 miles off
Highland Light, Cape Cod, early
today by the liner Presidente Wil-son,
according to wireless messages
picked up from the steamship at
Charleston navy Vard.
All members of the crew of the
Avalon were saved, the messages
Stated.
Coastguard headquarters was
notified a cutter was dispatched to
the sceAe.
Another message from the liner
stated that the rescued crew of the
schooner were being brought to
Boston.
MARINES GO INTO
NICARAGUA ROW
American Airplanes Are Used In
Skirmish; Two Aviators Are
Missing
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 29.
—(UP)—Marine airpla.nes cooper-ated
in an attack by a mixed force
of Americ^i marines and Ameri-can
officered Nicaraguan consta-bulary
on rebels north of Otaiali,
it was announced today.
The airplanes were used with
“good effect,” it. was stated. The
result of the skirmish, was not
known.
No news has been received of
two missing marine aviators, be-lieved
to be in rebel hands.
TRAIN HITS BUS
Train Near Calumet City, II!., Send
Vehicle Occupants Sprawl-ing
Along Track
CALUMET CITY, 111., Oct. 29.—
(UP)—A Pennsylvania passenger
train smashed into a motor bus at
a Calumet City street crossing,
pitched the bus against a concrete
warning post and injured all its
occupants so s,eri9usly' they were
taken to hospitals.
Some of the bus passengers were
so badly hurt it was said they
might die.
The train was running north to-
’ward Chicago in a heavy fog. Oc-cupants
of the bus,—11 passengers
and the driver—were sent sprawl-ir.
g along the railroad right-of-way.
MINE CRISIS IS
EXPECTED TODAY
I. W. W. Walkout of Coal Miners
In Colorado Has Been Rapidly
Nearing a Climax
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 29.— (UP)
—The I. W. W. coal strike in Col-orado,
a walkout which has been
gaining momentum for the last 12
days, moved to a climax tod^ay.
Developments during the next
few hours were expected by offi-cials
to :fhow whether the strike
would be a complete success—or a
complete failure.
First hope for some sort of set-tlement
came with the announce-meflt
that striking employes of the
Columbine mine at Erie, in the
heart of the trouble zone, were
awarded a salary . increase by the
state industrial commission.
The basic wage was raised from
$6.27 to $6.77 per day. ,
KILLER SAYS HE ‘DID RIGHT
William L. W. Schumacher, who declare* he did the right thing
when he filled his father, is pictured here with his sweetheart, Mrs.
Jessie Marlowe, in the McHenry county jail at Woodstock, 111. Schu-macher
said he killed because his father was “a brute to mother and
the other nine children.”
AWAIT CHARGE
TO JURORS FOR
FISHER TRIAL
Case in Milam County
District Court Marks
Time for Judge During
Saturday
Argue Case Today
Indications Are That Fate
of Wiley Fisher’s Son
Will Be in Hands of the
Jury Tonight
By BLANCHE REEVES
Evening Tribune Staff
CAMERON, Oct. 29.—
Trial of the Monroe Fisher
case, defendant charged with
murder in connection with
the death of Albert W. Bonds,
former sheriff of Bell coun-ty,
more-or legs marked time in
Milam district court this morn-ing,
awaiting preparation of the
court’s charge to the jury.
Once it is delivered argument
will start, which is not expected
to be completed before late to-night.
Indications now are that the
ease cannot go to the jury before
a late hour Saturday night.
Charge Submitted
At 11a. m. two drafts of Judge
John Watson’s charge to the jury
had been submitted to the attor-neys
for the defense, W. W. Hair,
W. G. Gillis a ad W. W. Chambers.
A final draft had not been sub-mitted.
An impatient courtroom await-ed
the hearing of the charge de-livered
to the jury, but rumors
about the courthouse indicated
that no arguments either by the
state or the defense would be made
before noon. County Attorney Jack
Lewis and Few Brewster of Bell
county, representing the state,
have made no statement as to how
long they will argue.
Judge Hair announced late yes-terday
that probably all three de-fense
lawyers would speak when
the argument to the jury is made.
Because this trial is the first to
be conducted under the new mur-der
law, which eliminates man-slaughter,
admits all testimony
relevant to the case at hand, and
qualifies the defendant for the sus-pended
sentence act, Judge Wat-son
began a difficult piece of work
when he began his charge to the,
jury. That probably accounts for
the delay, as the charge was start-ed
late yesterday afternoon.
CLAIMS PLOT TO
MURDER REMUS
Bootlegger King’s Lawyer Is Said
to Have Found Evidence at
Indianapolis r"
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 29. —
(INS)—Charles Elston, attorney
for George Remus, Cincinnati
bootlegger, charged with slaying !
his wife, Mrs. Imogene Holmes Re-mus,
was to leave Indianapolis to-day
jubilant: over what he claims
is further evidence of a plot
against Remus’ lifd by his wife
and Franklin L. Dodge, her alleged
lover.
Albert S. Ward, United States
district attorney, members of his
staff, and agents of the depart-ment
of justive, gave depositions
that a guard was kept over Remus
in December, 1925, while he was
testifying against 25 former asso-elates
in the Jack Daniel’s distil-lery
cases, because of gunmen seen
shadowing him during the trial.
Remus claims these men were
offered $15,000 to kill him, by his
wife and Dodge.
' McNARY AGREES
Author of Vetoed Farm Measure
Is Willing Now to Date Sug-gestions
of Others
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—(INS)
—Senator McNary, republican, of
Oregon, co-author of the vetoed
McNary-Haugen farm relief bill,
indicated today that he might be
willing to scrap his own measure
if congress and administration
leaders will agree upon a bill that
will "restore agriculture to its
former economic condition.”
He said he would call a meeting
shortly of congressmen, farm
leaders and administration spokes-men
to draft some bill based upon
sound principles.
TEXAS-ARKANSAS MEET
OF LEGION SET AUG. 27-29
AUSTIN, Oct. 29.—(UP)—Ross
Cole, state adjutant of the Amet-iean
legion, has returned from a
conference at Texarkana on plans
for the joint convention of Texas
and Arkansas legionnaires. The
meeting will be at Texarkana,
Aug. 27, 28 and 29,
MAN LEAPS OUT WINDOW
AS MONEY WOIJ) IS FOUND
AUSTIN. Oct. 29.—(UP)—Of-ficers
here are searching for a
man who leaped through a win-dow
here last night when they en-tered
an East Second street house
and seized a mold, supposed to
have produced bogus dollars that
that have been circulated in San
Antonio. Secret service agents at
San Antonio have been notified.
2 KILLED WHEN TRUCK IS
CRUSHED BY C. & O. THAIN
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Oct. 29.—
(INS)—Chester E. Ferguson, 31,
and William Justice, 2 9, were in-stantly
killed today at South
Portsmouth, Ky„When their'truck
was struck by a Shegapeake and
Ohio train.
MINERS STAGE
A BIG PARADE
55 Autos of SympatHiz-ers;
Many of Them
Leave for the Alamo
District
WALSENBURG, Colo., Oct. 2 9.
—(INS)—Fifty-five automobiles,
loaded with striking miners and
many of their women sympa-thizers,
left here this morning for
the Alamo district to “stage a
demonstration.”
Little fear of violence #’as held,
however, as practically all mines
in the Walsenburg district were
ordered closed today, making pick-eting
unnecessary.
Reports from the Trinidad dis-trict
said the mine operators had
decided to close all large workings
in Las Animas, at least for tpday.
Coal production in the southern
field was virtually at a standstill.
TROOPS ARE READY
FOR MOBILIZATION
DENVER, Oct. 29.—(INS)—
With a ijiobilization order for na-tional
guard troops before him.
Governor William H. Adams today
declared he will not sign the in-strument
dispatching more than
1000 armed militiamen into the
southern Colorado coal fields un-less
county authorities in that dis-trict
call upon the state for aid in
maintaining order.
Three Curtis bombing planes of
the guard are already zooming
over the strike-infested area, and
officers and enlisted men have
completed all arrangements for
immediate mobilization.
Declaring that illegal picketing
in the Walsenburg and Trinidad
districts had resulted in virtual
paralyzation of the mine industry,
coal operators, railroad heads and
business leaders have urged the
governor to send troops into the
district because, they declared, the
existing acute shortage threatened
to raise havoc with all industries
in Colorado.
Already more than 1000 men
have been thrown out of work at
the Pueblo steel plant of the Colo-rado
Fuel and Iron company as
the result of curtailed receipts of
coal shipments.
Continued warm weather has
prevented any suffering. Altho
there is only a 'small supply of
coal on hand in Denver for do-mestic
purposes.
A ray of hope for settlement of
the strike, called on Oct. 18 by
leaders of -the Industrial Workers
of the' World, was seen today in
the award of the state industrial
commission of an increase of 50c
per day—to $6.77—in the basic
wages of miners in the southern
field.
At a mass meeting of striking
miners in the southern field a de-mand
was made last night for
establishment of the Jacksonville
scale of $7.75 per day. The basic
wage in Huerfano and Walsenburg
counties is $6.20.
MRS. GRAYSON TO
DECIDE ON ‘HOP’
Aviatrix Says Will Either Fly Or
Abandon Flight at Once;
Winter Coining On
OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Oct. 29.
—(INS)— Mrs. Frances Wilson
Grayson’s transatlantic amphibian
plane The Dawn will be headed for
Copenhagen, Denmark, within the
next few days or the projected
flight will be abandoned. This
statement was made by Mrs. Gray-son
today to International News
Service as she returned from Bos-ton
where she had been in con-ference
with Clarence Chamberlin.
New York-to-Germany flyer. “Be-cause
of the la.teness of the season
I will not again this year attempt a
flight to Copenhagen unless I feel
quite sure of success,” Mrs. Gray-son
said.
CHARGE DELAY
BY MILLIKIN
Blundell Says Defense Is
Slow in Sanity Trial in
an Effort to Stave Off
Execution
LOCKHART, Oct. 29.—(UP)—
Defense in the sanity hearing of
A. V. Millikin has caused delay
after delay with no other purpose
than to extend its deliberations
beyond Monday, when the defend-ant
is scheduled to be electrocuted
at Huntsville for murder of Mrs.
Virginia Petty.
Such was the charge of District
Attorney Fred Blundell.
The hearing, which has been in
progress for 10 days, has been de-iayed
‘almost every day by a de-fense
plea for more time or to al-low
presentation of various mo-tions.
After the defense rested Friday
night, Blundell said he hoped to
rush through the state's case and
have the evidence with the jury
before Saturday night.
Blundell does not think the
hearing will be concluded before
time for M.illikin’s execution. In
this event the execution date must
be advanced by Governor Moody.
Sheriff W. E. Ellison was the
first state witness last night. While
he was on the stand, the lie was
passed from District Attorney
Hawkins to Blundell, which almost
caused a courtroom fisticuff. Haw-kins
later apologized to the court.
SWIMMER GRASPS
LIVE WIRE; DIES
Falls in Buffalo Bayou and Is
Killed as He Draws Him-
I self From Water
HOUSTON, Oct. 29.—(UP) —
Death struck twice at the Buffalo
Bayou plant of the Portland Trin-ity
Cement company today.
When it had passed, one man
had been electrocuted and another
was a heart attack victim.
Homer Fenton, a dock helper,
fell into the bayou while tying up
a company barge at the pier. He
bobbed to the surface and clutched^
at the dock.
He was drawing himself out of
the water when he grasped a live
wire.
Ed Bradford, working on a
crane on the dock, leaped into the
water. Some one turned off the
current. Bradford pulled Fenton
from the water, but efforts to re-vive
him failed.
In the crowd that gathered on
the pier was W. B. Stegman, plant
superintendent. Stegman drove
home, opened the front door and
plunged forward dead from a heart
attack.
MODEL LEAPS TO
DEATH IN N. Y.
Girl Pens Pathetic Note To Mother
and Jumps From Hotel
Window
NhJW YORK, Oct. 29.—(INS)—
Another tragedy of Broadway, the
street of bright lights and broken
hearts, was enacted today when a
beautiful, dark-haired girl of 22, a
model, wrote a pathetic note to
"darling mother" and then jumped
from the eighth story of the
Knickerbocker hotel. She was in-stantly
killed.
Her body, clad only in a silk
step-in and a brassiere, was found
on the roof of a one-story exten-sion
in the rear of the hotel. She
had registered last night as “M. E.
Green, Passaic, N. J.” but investi-gation
indicated that this is not
her name. The police believe she is
Mildred Nash of Milford, Mass.
“Darling mother: Please forgive
me,” said a note found on her
dresser.^ “You know I do not love
Buddie and the New York life is
driving me mad.”
ROUSING WELCOME IS GIVEN
. PANTHER GUESTS WITH TCU
FOLLOWERS THIS MORNING
Parade Is Staged to Baylor Campus, Where Home-coming
Reunion, Featured by Barbecue, Re-ceives
the Visitors and Addresses Salute Fort
Worth Throngs
The Panther special arrived from Fort Worth this morn-ing
at 10:30 amidst the noise of siren whistles, Baylor yells,
and the band playing, bringing hundreds of Frog follow-ers
to witness the Baylor-T. C. U. game at the Cotton Pal-ace
this afternoon, which climaxes today’s homecoming.
According to Myron Ward, assistant manager of the Fort
Worth Chamber of Commerce, the special had 15 coaches,
with~1000 passengers.
Waco Coinmitee in Welcome
The welcoming committee,
W. E. Terrell and Bert Perry
official welcome, and to di-rect
the parade staged by the
T. C. U. students and Exes.
Mrs. Ben Dean headed the
parade, and cars of the local
dealers were filled with coeds to
take them to Baylor, where they
were special guests at the big
homecoming rally and barbecue
preceding the game.
Many Meet Train
Every ex-student of T. C. U. and
all friends were there to meet the
tftins, some having friends and
relatives coming in. Following the
cars came the T. C. U. band and
the girls’ pep squad, with the
leader of the girls and the drum
major leading.. The pep squad
were dressed in purple and white
uniforms, which were given them
by Amon G. Carter, Business man
in Fort Worth.
Neither President E. M. Waits of
T. C. U. nor Dr. S. P. Brooks were
able to be present, Dean Colby Hall
of T. C. U. being in charge of the
visitors.
composed of Mrs. Ben Dean,
were there to give them an
PROSECUTION i
NEARS END IN
FALL’S TRIAL
Monday’s Witnesses Ex<
' pected to Trace Final
$25,000 of $230,500 to
Sinclair
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—(INS)
— The Fall-Sinclair conspiracy
trial was rested over the week-end
today with the prosecution’s case
nearly completed.
The high lights’ of the week in
the government’s effort to pro^’e
that former Secretary of Interior
Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sin-
Baylor Students on Hand
Nearly all of the Baylor stu-dents
had turned out to meet the
train, among them being Miss Ma-rlan
Harris, who had guests com-ing
in oh the special, Ada Beth
Scarborough and Helen Durham;
Martha Lanham, Nell Torian, Bet-sy
Connally, Cobby de Stivers, ex-student,
Thelma Chisholm, Edna
Maude Aynesworth, lone Casey.
Mrs. John Ed Punchard was driv-ing
her car in the parade, as were
the following Wacoans: A. J.
Bush, who was master of cere-monies;
J. Austin Strange and
daughter, Mrs. Aubrey Spearman;
Mrs. Sam Jacobs, Misses Frances
and Henrietta Harrison, Layton
Dawson.
Others Meet Guests
Mrs. A. C. Hanna and Mrs. A. C.
Bostick were there to meet guests.
Miss Lita Chrisman, Mrs. Charles
Bostick and Mrs. R. T. Doudy, who
was formerly Miss Stella Mae Wat-ley
of Waco. Mr^.' J. W. Ward met
her granddaughters at the station,
Misses Margaret and Maurine
Rankin, and also Mrs. J, M. Ward.
Miss Mamie Schaffer, teacher in
the South Waco school, and who
attended T. C. U. at Waco, was
there to see all old friends.
Preceding the T. C. U. reception
this morning at Baylor the Baylor
Chamber of Commerce alumni
met, and then much shaking of
hands with all of the old cronies,
until the T. C. U, reception, when
there was even more of it. Milton
E. Daniel of Breckenridge, presi-dent
of the T. C. U. Alumni asso-elation,
responded to the, address
of welcome made by Dean Allen,
and then the barbecue, cafateria
style, was served, with the Waco
Baylor club, of which George Wie-bus.
ch is president, the host of all
of the day’s celebration.
Banquet Tonight
After the game, which starts at
2:30, the T. C. U. team and all
T. C. U. Exes and friends go to the
Central Christian church at 6:30
for dinner, and at 8:15 everything
will be quiet again as the Panther
special returns its cargo to Fort
Worth.
BODY IN HUDSON
Dismembered Man’s Torso Found
in River by Railroad
Ferryman
HOBOKEN, N. J., Oct. 29.—
(INS)—Dismembered parts of a
man’s body were found in a pil-low
case taken from the Hudson
river here today.
The gruesome find was made by
a Lackawana railroad ferryman.
The pillow case was tied at the
end and weighted with a piece of
marble and a brick.
Half of “the upper part of a tor-so,
part of a neck, part of an ab-,
domen were found in the bag. Sev-eral
parts were wrapped separate-ly
in a copy of a New York news-paper
dated Aug. 23, 1927.
PLANE CRASHES
elai, New York oil magnate, fraud-ulently
negotiated a lease on the
Teapot Dome naval oil reserve ii*
consideration of which Fall re-ceived
$230,500, were summed up
by those following the. case as fol-lows:
The refustl of M. T. Everhart,
son-in-law of Fall, to testify where
he got $230,500 in Liberty bonds
he deposited to Fall’s credit,, on
the ground revelation thereof
"might tend to incriminate” him.
Definite' establishment, through
serial numbers, that these bonds
had come from the Continental
Trading company of Canada.
Sinclair’s Intent' Shown
That Sinclair was actively inter-ested
in, and guaranteed in writ-ing,
the oil deal for which the
Continental company was created,
which embraced the purchase of
33,333,333 barrels of oil from the
late Col. A. E. Humphreys of Tex-as
at $1.50 a barrel and the im-mediate
re-sale of the _oil to the
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing
company at SI.75.
That all of the profits the Con-tinental
thus made, $3,080,000,
were converted into Liberty bonds
and that those ultimately reaching
Fall were included in the lot.
Evidence that Fall had never
submitted the lease to the solicitor
of his own department or the at-orney
general despite the fact
that a Standard Oil attorney had
expressed doubt as to legality of
a lease which called for exchange
of crude oil for fuel oil.
That Fail never advertised Tea-pot
Dome for lease, nor called for
competitive bids as is usually done.
Owen J. Roberts, federal coun-sel,
now has only to complete the
presentation of the Continental
deal and bring in evidence con-cerning
a final $25,000 Sinclair
gave Fall after the latter was out
of office. He will then rest and the
defense will begin.
A. & M. CLERK IS
HURT IN CRASH
S. D. Pierce of Feed Control Dc-
Iiartment 'fhought To Be Fa-tally
Injured Today
BRYAN^ Oct. 29.—(INS)—S. D.
Pearce, 45, chief clerk, feed con-trol
department, Texas A. and M.
college, probably was fatally in-jured
here today when the car in
uhtch he was driving was struck
from the rear by an automobile
driven by A. R. Dow, student at A.
and M. college.
Dow, a sophomore at the col-lege,
is from Mesopotania. In the
car at the time of the accident was
A. J. Kendall, Fort Smith, Ark.,
also a student at A. and M.
Dow was attempting to pass
Pearce but he was forced back by
another car approaching from Col-lege
Station, and his automobile
was rammed by that driven by
Pearce, who was crushed against
the steering wheel of his car by
the impact. Pearce was rushed to
a hospital here where he is not ex-pecked
to recover. Charges prob-ably
will be filed against Dow, of-ficers
said.
DIES UNDER TRAIN
Dallas Man Escapes Unhurt and Is
Able to Resume Flight From
Pfleugerville
AUSTIN, Oct. 29.—(UP)—J. F.
Dexter, Dallas contractor, crashed
in landing his airplane at Pfleu-g^
rville, north of Austin, but es-caped
without .injury. The impact
crumpled up the landing geaY, but
Dexter was able to leave with it
today on a flight to Abilene, Esti-lene,
Amarillo and Oklahoma City.
He was accompanied from here ry
J. M. Page, former highway, en-gineer
of Oklahoma, now seere-tary
of the Texas highway division,
American General Contractors’
association.
Houston Night Watchman Struck
by Train: Was Walking Home
From Work
HOUSTON, Oct. 29.— (UP)—J.
A. Johnson, 55, night watchman
for the Burge Manufacturing com-pany,
was killed instantly at 6 a.
m. today when he was struck by a
Southern Pacific passenger train,
inbound from Austin.
The accident happened about
three miles from town.
Johnson, railroad officials pre-sume,
had just quit work and was
en route to his home.
He was walking on the track, it
was reported.